Applications Engineer
$85,000 - $100,000 USD yearly
About the role
This role supports customer technical inquiries and works between customers and Design, Product, and Quality engineers. Technical focus includes bench testing, EVM bring-up, and documentation for ICs used in Automated Test Equipment (ATE).
What you'll do
- Generate technical documentation for products, including datasheets, product guides, and application notes to support customer integration.
- Support customer and system-level debug by defining issues, reproducing them in the lab, and driving root-cause analysis with Design, Product, and Quality Engineering.
- Perform bench testing and analysis to address customer inquiries and troubleshooting issues.
- Build, bring up, and maintain EVMs and lab setups.
- Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis in conjunction with the operations team.
- Support sales activities by assisting with product recommendations for new customer designs and on-site customer visits.
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or graduating soon).
- 0-2 years of professional experience in applications, test, product, or systems engineering on semiconductor products.
- Extensive experience with bench equipment, including scopes, SMUs, supplies, and AWGs from an internship, co-op, research, personal, or senior-design project.
- Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits.
Nice to have
- Experience in semiconductor test, ATE, measurement equipment, or high-performance instrumentation.
- Experience in analog, mixed-signal design, or transistor level debug.
- Exposure to PCB design review and bring up or using tools such as Altium or Allegro.
- Familiarity with SPICE simulation tools such as LTspice or PSpice.
- Experience using programming languages or tools for test automation and data analysis such as Python, C, JMP, or Excel.
Skills: EVM, bench testing, datasheets, analog, mixed-signal, oscilloscope
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 101-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Mixed Signal
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Open roles in category
52
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Median days open
101 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
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| Metric | Elevate Semiconductor | All employers we track in this specialty (52 roles · 17 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 52 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 101 d (−101 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: EVM, bench testing, datasheets, analog, mixed-signal, oscilloscope
Who's hiring in this category
- Analog Devices · 11 open roles · median 43 d
- Texas Instruments · 9 open roles · median 53 d
- Microchip Technology · 6 open roles · median 134 d
- Arrow Electronics · 5 open roles · median 119 d
- Infineon Technologies · 4 open roles · median 147 d
- Omni Design Technologies · 4 open roles · median 140 d
How we counted: 52 open Applications FAE (Mixed Signal) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 4 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.